Lorenzo Cigana
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lorenzo Cigana is involved.
Journal
Title
Lectures on Language Theory 1942–1943
Louis Hjelmslev
The present book is the English translation of Louis Hjelmslev’s lectures on glossematics, the theory of language developed in the forties by him and Hans Jørgen Uldall, and taught at the University of Copenhagen in 1942-43, thoroughly taken down in shorthand by his student Harry Wett Frederiksen.… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 132] 2024. viii, 234 pp.
2024 A “Course in general glossematics” Lectures on Language Theory 1942–1943, Hjelmslev, Louis, pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2024 Chapter 17. The structuralist quest for general meanings: Mapping the history of monosemy in grammatical semantics History of Linguistics 2021: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August – 1 September, Raynaud, Savina, Maria Paola Tenchini and Enrica Galazzi (eds.), pp. 248–277 | Chapter
This article reconstruct the history and development of the methodology known as “of general meanings”, widely adopted in 20th century structural linguistics and grammatical semantics starting from the Thirties onwards, tracking its roots in the framework of German Allgemeine Sprachlehre and… read more
2020 Chapter 7. Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière, Imrényi, András and Nicolas Mazziotta (eds.), pp. 215–252 | Chapter
This paper aims to challenge the assumption according to which Otto Jespersen’s syntactic model represents an anticipation of the immediate constituent analysis. In our opinion, there are elements that rather align with a more dependency-oriented framework, as it is the case of Jespersen’s… read more




